On the h-, p- and h-p versions of the boundary element method. - Numerical results (Q808663)

The authors present numerical results on two types of boundary integral equations of the first kind. The first one is Symm's integral equation with logarithmic kernel and the second one is a hypersingular integral equation with the normal derivative of the double layer potential as kernel. They compare the pure h- and p-versions with the h-p-version on a geometric mesh and the adaptive h-p-version in solving both equations. The superiority of the combined versions (exponential convergence rate) on the pure versions (algebraic convergence rate) is emphasized. The numerical experiments are performed with the authors' own code. The theoretical background consists of some important results many of them being the work of the second author.